Three

[pendantry]

[Fighting and weather chaos seem to have given way to...new arrival chaos instead. Unless someone shows up from her world, Raven'll be steering clear of the New Feathers given half an opportunity, at least until they know more about what's going on.

No, today she's taking steps toward all the things she made tentative plans about. First, to the flower shop and the item shop, looking for seeds that might result in food that could restore Rune Magic. Or a certain special kind of blue flower, one she's not likely to find until the fall - but she'll look, for the flower and the seeds.

Then she swallows her weird mix of fear-pride and goes back to the smithy. Time to ask about work. Now that her arm has healed and she's gotten a little practice in again, making accessories doesn't sound bad at all. Whoever is around in there will see her awkwardly stare at the building for several minutes before going inside to stare in a similar fashion at them.

Next comes an early dinner at Seventh Heaven, and that's where she lays out the journal and a small bag of somethings and speaks a message.]

I want to talk to some of you. I'm at the restaurant. [A very long pause.] Do all worlds have monsters?

[[ooc: Basically, if you had a moment with Raven thus far since she's been here, she made you something while she was getting herself back into accessory-crafting shape. Anyone can run into her (literally, if you wish) as she wanders around the village and tries to eat dinner in peace.]]

Comments

[shamelessness]

Some people become Exorcists. Exorcists get rid of the demons, and send them back to their world in Gehenna.

[pendantry]

[Back to their world. Return magic?]

So they aren't from your world at all.

[shamelessness]

Yes, and no? Gehenna and Assiah are separate, but connected... sort of. Demons posses things in Assiah, and exorcists expel them back to Gehenna. It's different than being in other worlds like home and Luceti.

[pendantry]

[Not as different as you might think. It sounds like being sent back to the Forest of Beginnings. Except Demons are apparently more actively malicious about it.]

We have something like that.

[shamelessness]

Ah, you do? [Someone who understands?]

[pendantry]

Monsters come through gates from the Forest of Beginnings.

[shamelessness]

Are the monsters troublesome?

[pendantry]

Some of them. Others are good allies or live on farms.

[shamelessness]

Some demons can be nice too, if they try.

[Though it appears that their basic nature is to be destructive.]

[pendantry]

[Some humans - or dwarves, or elves, or one airheaded mermaid - can be nice, too, if they try.]

What do you do? [Inflected to imply "for a living".]

[shamelessness]

I'm training to become an exorcist myself. Back home I work with a demon, but here I've been blessed with a Pokémon.

[pendantry]

So you're practicing to get rid of...demons.

[shamelessness]

Yes, that's it.

[pendantry]

Mmh. [At least a world with its own kind of return magic is understandable.]

Do you like it?

[shamelessness]

I do! I know I'm helping and protecting people by doing it.

[Also she kind of selfishly joined the cram school to help her get out of the house and see the world.]

[pendantry]

[Helping people isn't a bad motivation, she figures. Okay. As long as they're sure it's helpful in the long run.]

Are there a lot of you?

[shamelessness]

Ah, yes, there's a whole Order supported by the Vatican.